Foreign News: The Best of Stimulants

Three of the U.S.'s good friends and hard-bargaining customers agreed
last week to take more U.S. goods. They did so with appropriately
pretty speeches. "Equity if not gratitude" requires it, said France's
Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer
Derick Heathcoat Amory launched into a tribute "to the invaluable help
that we and all other countries in the free world have received from
the U.S. in economic aid during the difficult postwar period."

They then let down quota barriers against U.S. goods, responding to
Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon's warning (TIME, Nov. 9) that
they would face a "resurgence...